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19/03/2023

Altea Euroflying Cup 2023 4.8 (4)

The Euroflying Cup 2023 started last Thursday, March 16 in the waters of the bay of Altea. This international event that has more than 20 years of history brings together every year the best specialists of the Flying Dutchman light sailing class.

The test is organized by the Spanish Association of Flying Dutchman, the Royal Spanish Sailing Federation, the Sailing Federation of the Valencian Community and the Nautical Club of Altea. The regatta also has the support of the Comunitat de l’Esport project of the Generalitat Valenciana, a program for the Promotion of Sports Activity.

For the three days of regatta a total of 9 races were scheduled, but due to the low wind only 4 tests have been completed, enough to erect this year’s winners. The wind has blown during the three days with intensities of between 5 and 6 knots, allowing two sleeves on Thursday and two on Friday.

The wind made it more complicated for the Race Committee on Saturday. The scarcity and the continuous wind roles left the day blank.

The sailors of the Real Club Náutico de Torrevieja, Francisco José Martínez and Jose Luis Ruiz, have positioned themselves throughout the race at the head of the classification, leaving impeccable results, four first in the four races disputed. The couple from Torrevieja has thus been proclaimed champions of this edition of the Euroflying Cup 2023.

His clubmates, Ginés Romero and Álvaro Moreno, followed them in the classification obtaining silver with two seconds as best partials. The third position was for a crew of the Club Náutico de Altea, formed by Marco Sevila and Roberto Sevila, father and son.

At 4:00 p.m. the trophy ceremony took place in the skipper room of the Club Náutico de Altea. The Bon Vent restaurant offered attendees a sweet snack and drinks. The event was attended; Eduardo Revert, member of the Sailing Federation of the Valencian Community, Enrique Egea, secretary of the Flying Dutcham class and José Rius, vice president of CN Altea.

Thus ends this first regatta that inaugurates the European circuit of the Flying Dutchman class. After this test in Altea the circuit will travel to ports in Italy, Austria, Germany and Croatia, where the fight between the best sailors of the Flying Dutchman class to win the European title will continue.

Results: clasdia2

19/02/2023

Worlds 2024 in St. Petersburg, USA 4.4 (8)

World Championship

Dear FD-sailors!

In a committee meeting on 16-2-2023 the IFDCO has decided to appoint the St. Petersburg Yacht Club to host and organize the Flying Dutchman World Championship 2024.
It was not an easy decision in regard to the prices to ship the boats by container to St. Petersburg. This issue has been on the committees mind for the last 6 months. We have been monitoring the container prices constantly.
The St. Petersburg Yacht Club needed a decision in order to have enough time to organize the Championship. At this moment the prices for a round trip from the Netherlands to St. Petersburg are about € 2.100. The prices of container shipping are going down slightly. We realize that it still is a lot of money and in order to emphasize teams to go to St. Petersburg the IFDCO has also decided to support every team with € 400 to go to the Worlds.
We think it is very important to keep our tradition up to go out of Europe every 4 years as we are a worldwide class. This is also a very important signal to World Sailing. Also we want to join the Flying Dutchman sailors from the western part of the World in good competition. We hope to see
sailors from the US,Canada maybe Mexico and Chile?

We do realize that for ‘younger’ teams it will be difficult to raise the money for such an event. We will try to find some extra support for them but also feel that because of this reason we cannot say no to a Worlds
outside of Europe.

Kind regards

Peter van Koppen
President IFDCO

03/02/2023

Worlds 2023 NOR online 5 (2)

World Championship

Dear FD-Sailors,

please find attached the Notice of Race (NOR) for our Worlds in Gdynia, Poland.

Registration opens on 1st of March 2023.

See you in Poland.

>> NOR 2023 Gdynia

11/01/2023

POL & ESP events 2023 added 5 (2)

Events

We just added the events of Poland and Spain to the events calender 2023.

08/01/2023

NEW YEARS GREETINGS 5 (5)

IFDCO News

Dearest Flying Dutchman-sailors!

I wish you all a happy,prosperous and healthy 2023!
I hope you had a nice Christmas time with your family and friends and had a fine New Years Eve!

Another year has passed. We all felt that Covid was a big obstruction to our normal life and are all happy that the worst is over. It would have been nice if all would have been back to ‘normal’!
But another disaster struck the World. The war in the Ukrain with all its consequences. I really do not understand why this is happening in the actual period of human civilization. It has a
great effect on our minds and also economically! Let’s hope it will be over soon!

So let’s not forget when we are sailing our Flying Dutchman what a great feeling of joy and freedom it gives to us! Let’s realize how valuable these moments are also sharing this time with our friends!
We again had this great feeling at the Worlds in Campione. What a great event a World Championship always is!

So IFDCO is making all the preparations for the next Worlds in Gdynia Poland. At the end of July we should have great weather and I heard from sailors who were at the Gdynia Sailing Week last year it seems to be a beautiful place with good racing.

Furthermore we are sorting out the issue for the containers and their prices for the Worlds in Florida planned for March 2024. We will make a decision in March of this year if the Championship will take place in the US.
The Bulletin will be presented soon. We hoped to get it ready before Christmas of last year but I regret that we did not make that date.

We will also present to you probably in february a new rewritten Class Rule 115 about pumping. At the last Worlds we had quite a few problems with it. The now existing rule leads to confusion with the jury. So we will have to rewrite it and clearify what we want from it as the Flying Dutchman Class!

Kind regards

Peter van Koppen
President